Esophageal cancer affects the esophagus lining, causing swallowing difficulty and chest pain. Learn what symptoms to look for ...

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A Peter Mac-led international clinical trial has found a way to personalize treatment for gastroesophageal cancer, ...

That's when doctors discover a tumor that has grown into the walls of the esophagus, and likely beyond. "At that point," Kahn said, "it's incurable." This is why only about 20% of Americans with ...

The FDA has approved Tevimbra with chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of unresectable or metastatic ESCC whose tumors express PD-L1.

Their work showed that physicians can safely treat esophageal cancer with proton therapy using pencil-beam scanning and a single proton beam that goes through the patient’s back. Tumors in your ...

it is called esophageal cancer or cancer of the esophagus. A cancerous tumor can develop at any point along the esophagus.

Cancers of the esophagus are uniquely challenging to treat, for two important reasons. First, esophageal cancers are relatively uncommon in the United States, and thus many clinicians will not have ...

Adenocarcinoma arises from glandular cells that are present at the junction of the esophagus and stomach. Esophageal tumors usually lead to dysphagia (difficulty swallowing), pain and other ...